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CLEP Analyzing And Interpreting Literature

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1. The time and place of a story or play.






2. A metrical unit composed of stressed an unstressed syllables.






3. The narrator is outside of the story and is all-knowing or 'God-like' because he/she knows everything that occurs and everything that each character thinks and feels.






4. An interruption of a work's chronology to describe or present an incident that occurred prior to the main time frame of a work's action.






5. Spectific characteristics are applied to an entire group of people and are used to 'classify' those people as part of a 'group'.






6. The person who 'tells' the story.






7. A customary feature of a literary work - such as the use of a chorus in Greek tragedy - the inclusion of an explicit moral in a fable - or the use of a particular rhyme scheme in a villanelle.






8. A form of language use in which writers and speakers convey something other than the literal meaning of their words.






9. A struggle or clash between opposing characters - forces - or emotions.






10. A character struggles with himself/herself and his/her opposing needs.






11. The traditional beliefs and customsof a group of people that have been passed down orally.






12. A lyrical poem that laments the dead.






13. Smaller units of plays that are broken down.






14. Words spoken by one character in a play - either directly to the audience or to another character - that the other characters supposedly do not hear.






15. A type of poem characterized by brevity - compression - and the expression of feeling.






16. The conversation of characters in a literary work.






17. The selection of words in a literary work.






18. A figure of speech in which an inanimate object animal - or idea is given human qualities or characteristics.






19. A humorous moment in a serious drama that temporarily relieves the mounting tension.






20. Words and phrases that vividly recreate a sound - sight - smell - touch - or taste for the reader by appealing to the senses.






21. The way people speak in various parts of the country or around the world.






22. A three-line stanza.






23. The matching of final vowel or consonant sounds in two or more words.






24. The grammatical order of words in a sentence or line of verse or dialogue.






25. A love lyric in which the speaker complains about the arrival of the dawn - when he must part from his lover.






26. A tension created as the reader becomes involved in a story and when the author leaves the reader in doubt about what is coming next.






27. The resolution of the plot of a literarture work.






28. The point after the climax where the action begins to drop off and the events of the plot become clear or are explained in some way.






29. The voice an actor takes on to tell the story in a particular work.






30. Refers to how a piece of literature is written rather than to what is actually said.






31. The vantage point from which the writer tells the story.






32. The emotion or feeling a word creates.






33. A long narrative poem that records the adventures of a hero.






34. The use of symbols in literature to convey meaning.






35. Two unaccented syllables followed by an accented syllable.






36. A technique designed to enact social change by using wit to rificule ideas - customs or institutions.






37. The organizational form of a literary work.






38. The idea of a literary work abstracted from its details of language - character - and action - and cast in the form of a generalization.






39. Refers to a writers use of language - including the use of literary techniques - word choice - and sentence structure - that sets one writer apart from another.






40. The measured pattern of rhyhtmic accents in poems.






41. The reason the author has written a piece of literature.


42. The difference between what a character expects and what the reader knows will happen.






43. The narrator is outside of the story and tells the story from the perspective of only one character.






44. Poetic meters such as trochaic and oactylic that move or fall from a stressed to an unstressed syllable.






45. A symbolic narrative in which the surface details imply a secondary meaning.






46. A division or unit of a poem that is repeated in the same form - - either with similar or identical patterns or rhyme and meter - or with variations from one stanza to another.






47. A comparison between essentially unlike things without an explicitly comparative word such as 'like' or 'as'.






48. A technique in which words - phrases - or sounds are repeated for emphasis.






49. The dictionary meaning of a word.






50. Imitates another literary work using humor usually to make the author and/or the work appear ridiculous.